Beadle's Wood-Thorn 



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ovate, 2.5 to 6 cm. long, 2.5 to 6 cm. wide, pointed or sharply pointed at the 

 apex, abmptly wedge-shaped, rounded or sometimes heart-shaped at the base, 

 doubly toothed, with three or four pairs of pointed lobes; young leaves thin but 

 j&rm, smooth, blue-green; leaf-stalks slightly winged above, glandular, 2 to 3 cm. 

 long. The flowers are about 2 cm, broad, in few-flowered smooth cor\'mbs; 

 calyx- lobes triangular, long-pointed, remotely toothed, with red stalked glands; 

 stamens 10 to 20; anthers hght pink; styles 3 to 5. The fruit ripens late; it is de- 

 pressed-globose, 5-angled, 12 to 15 mm. thick, apple-green, becoming a rich pur- 

 ple-red and covered with a waxy bloom; calyx-lobes erect, persisting; flesh firm, 

 yellow, sweet, mealy, containing 3 to 5 nutlets, commonly 5, from 6 to 8 mm. long, 

 ridged on the back, the nest 8 to 9 mm. thick. 



20. BEADLE'S WOOD-THORN Crataegus silvicola Beadle 



Cratcegus filipes Ashe. Cratcegus sequax Ashe. Cratccgus Robbinsiana Sargent 



This thorn occurs from western New England south to central Georgia and 

 northern Alabama and west to southern Michigan. It is a tree sometimes 9 meters 

 high, with ascending branches forming a small crown; the bark is slightly scaly; 

 the twigs are reddish brown becoming 

 ashy-gray, smooth, and are armed with 

 chestnut-brown curved spines 3 to 5 

 cm. long. 



The leaves are triangular-ovate, 2 



to 7 cm. long, 2 to 6 cm. wide, pointed 



or long-pointed at the apex, rounded or 



cut square, or, on the terminal shoots, 



heart-shaped at the base, doubly 



toothed, with three or four pairs of 



lobes, the lower lobes often cut; they 



are dark yellow-green, paler beneath, 



thin and smooth; leaf-stalks glandular, 



, rr^, ^ , Fig. 410. Beadle's Wood-Thorn. 



1 to 2 cm. long. 1 he flowers are about 



2 cm. wide in several-flowered smooth cor}^mbs, the calyx-lobes broadly triangu- 

 lar, long- pointed, sometimes sHghtly hair)^; stamens about 10; anthers pink; styles 



3 to 5. The fruit ripens late; it is subglobose, about 15 mm. thick, greenish red, 

 sometimes becoming cherry- red, slightly waxy when young; calyx-lobes spreading; 

 flesh firm, yellow or reddish yellow, mealy; it contains 3 to 5 nutlets 6 to 8 mm. 

 long, ridged on the back, the nest of nutlets 6 to 10 mm. thick. 



